I am not sure, but you could check this topis on CHAM (centre for overseas history )

http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/pages/eng/home.htm

Thank you for the information. The CHAM activities are very interesting.

Contact [email protected], she is currently in Rome studying the Jesuits in China. Although not from a scientific perspective, she may know people.

Thank you, a very good answer and an important suggestion.

Some pieces of information can be found in book by Giulio Andreotti, Un gesuita un Cina : 1552-1610: Matteo Ricci dall'Italia a Pechino, Milano 2001.

About Ricci you can find something in the article by Andrew Miotk, Dokonania o. Matteo Ricciego w zakresie akomodacji w Chinach (more or less: Matteo's father to the accommodative in China). This article comes from periodical "Nurt SVD" 2002, nr 2, p. 117-132; I'm not sure if it is available on-line and if it has English summary. In the same place there is the message of Pope John Paul II on Ricci (in connection with the 400-th anniversary of the arrival in Beijing Fr Matteo Ricci).

Very interesting information, Thank you

Almost a year ago Sebastian Schütze (Vienna) gave a lecture on Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit mission. This is the link to the conference programm and the meeting itself:

http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/medienportal/uni_view/PDF/PDF-Einladungen_allg/Programm_Visual_Historiography.pdf

http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/veranstaltungen/detailansicht/artikel/geschichte-der-aeltesten-asiatischen-weltkarte/

Best wishes for your research!

Hi Michela,

This would be a good start/reference also. It is the Mateo Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco.

http://www.usfca.edu/pacificrim/ricci/

All the best,

Luis

Perhaps, the book of A. Väth about Schall von Bell: "Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. : Missionar in China, kaiserlicher Astronom und Ratgeber am Hofe von Peking 1592-1666 : ein Lebens- und Zeitbild" (Nettetal : Steyler, 1991); or, "Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) : missionary, scientist, engineer and diplomat" (ed. J.W. Wittek), publ. by Institut Monumenta Serica , Sankt Augustin and Ferdinant Verbiest Foundation (Nettetal: Steyler, 1994); or the oldest book of Henri Bernard-Maitre, "Sagesse chinoise et philosophie chrétienne" (Paris : Cathasia, )1935.

All the best,

I was coming back with another link when I saw the latest reply by Dr. Miranda-García. Exactly, Monumenta Serica has a number of good articles on that period.

http://www.monumenta-serica.de/monumenta-serica/publications/index.php

All the best,

A lot of fantastic information.

Thanks to Julia Rudiger, Luis Andrade and Fermin Miranda-Garcia.

Thank you Michela. I imagine that you may know these works, but just in case: "The roots of the China mission during Matteo Ricci's time: science, diplomacy and local networks", by Francisco Roque de Oliveira in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 80(1): 258-266 (2011)

"Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China", By Florence C. Hsia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)

"Ferdinand Verbiest, jésuite missionnaire, astronome et mandarin blanc", by Albert Stevens, Albert in Lumen Vitae, 44 no 2: 217-27(1989)

Thank you Katelis,

I didn't Know the book of Michela Fontana. Curious, Michela is also my name, perhaps MIchelas must study Jesuits....

I Know Kircher books, because I studied a litte his job, is a very fascinating research.

You might find it useful to discuss the topic with Bianca Rinaldi who studied Jesuits who went in China and their impact on garden studies. If I remember well Jesuits appealed to the Emperor's interest in botany and such to try to find a common ground on which discussing religion. Good luck!

Thanks Josepha. I will call Bianca.

A fantastic suggestion.

I presented a paper on mineralogy in China and I do remember a refernce to the Jesuits but I will have to look it up.

what about this recent Italian volume?

http://events.unitn.it/centro-martini/la-generazione-dei-giganti-gesuiti-scienziati-e-missionari-cina-sulle-orme-di-matte-0

The Jesuits in China: specificities of the Chinese missions in

counterpoint with activities in Brazil (in portuguese)

http://www.snh2011.anpuh.org/resources/anais/14/1312332954_ARQUIVO_ArquivoalteradoJesuitas.pdf

There are quite a few references regarding medicine in the book: Needles, herbs, gods, and ghosts : China, healing, and the West to 1848 /